Created by ADVERSA's António Sá and Tiago Bastos Nunes in connection with the 14th Open House Lisboa, organised by the Lisbon Architecture Triennale, the project emerged from a process of observing and digitally capturing architectural spaces across Lisbon. Three-dimensional imagery became a means of reformatting familiar places: buildings and urban fragments appear almost as models in formation, shifting through light and successive stages between raw digital matter and recognisable city.

The project was conceived around the idea of Future Heritage and its use of contemporary 3D technologies is therefore inseparable from its subject. The work documents Lisbon while simultaneously revealing that any documentation of a city belongs to a particular technological and cultural moment.

Its acquisition by the Lisbon Municipal Archive gives that question a new dimension. What began as a contemporary interpretation of Lisbon now becomes part of the material through which Lisbon itself may later be remembered. The incorporation recognises Cycles as a contribution to the city's contemporary visual and intangible memory, preserving not only representations of individual spaces but a particular way of looking at Lisbon in the mid-2020s.